Personally, I have struggled with the Gospel vision of active nonviolence. When I am faced with violence or injustice, my first impulse is to react and attempt to impose my will on another. Active nonviolence, for me, is a way of being that, through God’s grace, I may inhabit in time. Writing a letter to my Archbishop – Cardinal Wuerl – will be an important step for me in naming and claiming my growing commitment to active nonviolence.

USCMA passed a resolution to seek “concrete ways” to re-commit to Gospel Nonviolence. This is one concrete expression of that commitment. Please let me know of other ways you, and your community, is seeking concrete expressions of active nonviolence. There are over 600 individual members in USCMA. If each one of us engaged one other person about this campaign, we would generate over 1,000 letters to our bishops around the country.